Jaco Pastorius Hope Poster - Sizes of Jazz Musician History Hoodie

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (* December 1, 1951 in Norristown, Pennsylvania; † September 21, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was one of the most influential electric bassists in recent music history. From 1979 he also gave solo concerts with the bass only. His credo was: "I play bass as if I was playing with a human voice." In 1988, Pastorius was elected into the Jazz Hall of Fame by the readers of Down Beat as the only electric bassist. This finally confirmed a sentence with which Pastorius had introduced himself in 1975 in Miami, free from all false modesty, after the sound check of the group Weather Report at the Guzman Theatre with their leader Joe Zawinul, whom he greatly admired: "My name is John Francis Pastorius I...